I want to use blocks with my students

The courses that allow block coding and how to allow students to use blocks in the editor.

Written by Emily Kuo Updated over a week ago

Currently we only support using blocks for some of our activities. If you are teaching a course that contains activities compatible with blocks you will be able to control whether your students see blocks or not.

Here are some courses that have blocks compatible activities

Intro to Computer Science in JavaScript

AP Computer Science Principles

Computing Ideas

Web Design

Intro to Programming with Karel

To set your students up to use blocks you need to visit the section settings page by clicking on the gear icon on the right side of the navbar at the top of any section page.

In the first section there is a setting under the header "Show Blocks." Switching this on will mean your students will see the blocks editor when available.